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owners and laborers and offered police protection to skilled craftsmen at local fairs and
markets. 10 The Reich Minister of Labor, Franz Seldte, decreed on the same date that
Jewish workers were to enjoy the same privileges and legal protections as their Aryan
counterparts. 11 The Reich Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick issued an order to the
Governors of the German States that Jewish businesses were not to be harmed by Aryan
rules and regulations. 12
Dr. Loewenstein, President of the Union of Jewish Front Fighters (Reichsbund
jüdischer Frontsoldaten), declared in their official publication, The Shield (Das Schild),
that the “solution of the Jewish question within our homeland” is obtainable provided
“racial differentiation” did not connote “racial defamation” which the Jewish war
veterans would denounce on the “grounds of our equal-born achievement.” 13 The sons of
such veterans would be allowed, according to Prussian Minister of Education Bernhard
Rust, to take their final exams in school. 14 Jews who had fought in the post-Great War
period in the Baltic and Upper Silesia or against the Spartacist, Communist and
Separatists revolutions would also be considered “front fighters” and would be exempt
from the “Aryan clause.” 15 The President of the Hilsverein declared on May 27, 1934,
10 Harry Schneiderman, ed., The American Jewish Year Book 5695 September 10, 1934-September 27,
1935, vol. 36 (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1934), 168 available from
http://www.ajcarchives.org/AJC_DATA/Files/Vol_36__1934_1935.pdf; Internet; accessed October 8,
2010.
11 Wischnitzer, “Jewish Emigration,” 27.
12 Ibid., 27.
13 Schneiderman, The American Jewish Year Book 5695, 181.
14 Ibid., 187.
15 Ibid., 192.
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